Chist-ERA call 2025: Science in your Own Language (SOL)

Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS)

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This call concerns the following topic: Topic: “Science in your own language (SOL)”.

This CHIST-ERA call will address the following two main strategic objectives:

• Promote multilingualism among science and technology producers (back-end) and users (frontend) through Machine Translation tools.

• Demonstrate, in the EU context, the use of a self-evaluation methodology, contributing to robust

developments by ensuring experiment reproducibility with predetermined data sets,

performance indicators and schedules.

Target Outcomes

Projects should address one or more of the following issues:

• Machine translation of scholarly documents to and from different languages including the

translation of research metadata and data where applicable, documents, protocols, paper and

project reviews, other academic or technical outputs such as outreach materials and press

releases, blogs and other web-based content.

• Design of tools for seamless and interoperable access to multilingual scientific and technology

data hubs and repositories for stakeholders who chose to approach and use them in their own

language. Tools should be demonstrated by application to sectoral use cases.

• Tools for multilingual detection of scientific frauds and plagiarism.

Expected Impact

Funded projects are expected to significantly advance the state-of-the-art by achieving one or more of the following objectives. • Open science to citizens and society.

• Take on board all research works independently of their language. Make academic results not published in English, arguably the current lingua franca, widely available to the academic communities so they can be internationally recognised.

• Increase the value of research and research driven products and services by facilitating regional or national targeted impacts.

• Increase the visibility of scientific results, irrespective of the language used to report them.

• Make creativity and reasoning in research benefit from all language subtleties.

• Design and implement demonstrations of new approaches to knowledge access both through novel modelling of data structures and software oriented to meet new criteria for accessibility policies.

Financement

Each partner is funded separately by the national/regional funding organisation they are applying to. They must fulfil the conditions of their funding organisation.
The maximum amount of requested funding per project is 200.000 eur . If the project involves the recruitment of a PhD student, the project duration of the F.R.S.-FNRS sub-project could be up to four years.

Eligible costs items

Personnel costs: 80,000€ EUR per year on average for the duration of the project. The usual duration of ERA-NET research programmes is three years. However, when the project involves a PhD student, the principal investigator can apply for an additional one year funding in order to complete the four years PhD programme. Since this programme is Not cofunded by the European Commission, this final year should be included in the budget submitted to this call.

Equipment: can be eligible up to 20% of the total budget of the project

Running costs: travel expenses; organisation of small scientific events in Belgium; consumables and the following support costs: consumables Publication Designing (conception d’ouvrage) Dictionary Production (réalisation de dictionnaire) Purchase of Books Encoding Software Access Rights Congress Registration Fees Purchase of Computer Scanning Travel costs Visa costs Open Access publication of an article up until 500 euros (see F.R.S-FNRS Open Access policy).

“Overhead” is not an eligible cost for FNRS. If the project is selected for funding, these costs will be subject to a separate agreement between the institution of the beneficiary and the F.R.S.-FNRS.

Pour postuler

A one-step submission process applies. The coordinator prepares a joint proposal for the whole consortium, using the template available below as attachment. The form is submitted using the electronic submission system, along with a financial table following the template also available below and administrative project data entered directly in the system.

Applicants must provide basic administrative data by submitting an administrative application on e-space within 5 working days after the general deadline of the call to be eligible. Please select the “PINT-MULTI” funding instrument when creating the administrative application. This call follows a one-step procedure.

Deadline:

Full Proposals: April 15, 2025 at 14:00 CEST

Requis d'admission

Eligibility of the Consortium

The following CHIST ERA general eligibility criteria must be met:

1. The consortium is international: • It must have a minimum of three eligible and independent partners requesting funding to organisations in the call from three distinct countries.

2. The consortium is balanced: • At most 60% of the total requested funding may be requested by partners from one country.

Eligibility rules for F.R.S. - FNRS

Applicants requesting funding from F.R.S. FNRS must comply with the following rules.

The applicant must be affiliated to a university from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB).

At the closure of the call, the applicant should also:

- Be a permanent researcher of F.R.S-FNRS (Chercheur qualifié, maître de recherches ou Directeur de recherche) or;

- Hold a tenure track position (or an assimilated position including pending tenure track) with a research institution from the FWB

After the submission of applications, the F.R.S.-FNRS and the research institutions are required to verify the eligibility of the candidates. The F.R.S.-FNRS reserves the right to refuse those whose eligibility criteria would not comply with the Regulation.

In order the check the compliance with these eligibility criteria, please contact your contact person at ULB-TTO (see details below). T

he complete F.R.S-FNRS rules for international research projects is available at the following link: https://www.frs-fnrs.be/docs/Reglement-et-documents/International/FRS-FNRS_PINT-Multi.pdf